Monthly Archive for March, 2011

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PIC: GWU Provost welcomes #iwmfconf delegates! Opening Session begins! Off & running!!!!

Published on March 23, 2011 in General. 0 Comments

PIC: GWU Provost welcomes #iwmfconf delegates! Opening Session begins! Off & running!!!!, originally uploaded by @jozjozjoz.

Washington, DC
3/23/2011.

-J
Pecked out on my iPhone. Sorry for any typos.
www.jozjozjoz.com

PIC: Diane Sawyer & Marvin Kalb. The Kalb Report at The National Press Club. On CSpan now!

Published on March 22, 2011 in General. 0 Comments

PIC: Diane Sawyer & Marvin Kalb. The Kalb Report at The National Press Club. On CSpan now!, originally uploaded by @jozjozjoz.

Front row seats! Sitting with Congresswoman Connie Morella and other VIPs!

Diane’s first words on stage as she sat down: "How’s Spring Break?!" (to all the GW students.

Washington, DC
3/22/2011.

-J
Pecked out on my iPhone. Sorry for any typos.
www.jozjozjoz.com

PIC: #iwmfconf Opening Night Program. The Kalb Report taping ft. Diane Sawyer!

Published on March 22, 2011 in General. 0 Comments

PIC: #iwmfconf Opening Night Program. The Kalb Report taping ft. Diane Sawyer!, originally uploaded by @jozjozjoz.

I have front row seats!

Washington, DC
3/22/2011.

-J
Pecked out on my iPhone. Sorry for any typos.
www.jozjozjoz.com

PIC: Michael Freedman, GW Univ Global Media Institute Exec Dir (he’s a journo, too!)

Published on March 22, 2011 in General. 0 Comments

PIC: Michael Freedman, GW Univ Global Media Institute Exec Dir (he’s a journo, too!), originally uploaded by @jozjozjoz.

Washington, DC
3/22/2011.

-J
Pecked out on my iPhone. Sorry for any typos.
www.jozjozjoz.com

PIC: DC Mayor Vincent Gray addresses the #iwmfconf delegates

Published on March 22, 2011 in General. 0 Comments

PIC: DC Mayor Vincent Gray addresses the #iwmfconf delegates, originally uploaded by @jozjozjoz.

Washington, DC
3/22/2011.

-J
Pecked out on my iPhone. Sorry for any typos.
www.jozjozjoz.com

PIC: @IWMF Exec Dir Liza Gross opens the #iwmfconf at the Nat’l Press Club

Published on March 22, 2011 in General. 0 Comments

PIC: @IWMF Exec Dir Liza Gross opens the #iwmfconf at the Nat’l Press Club, originally uploaded by @jozjozjoz.

Washington, DC
3/22/2011.

-J
Pecked out on my iPhone. Sorry for any typos.
www.jozjozjoz.com

PIC: Site visit/final show run through for Opening Session!

Published on March 21, 2011 in General. 0 Comments

PIC: Site visit/final show run through for Opening Session!, originally uploaded by @jozjozjoz.

Jack Morton Auditorium
The George Washington University
Washington, DC
3/21/2011.

-J
Pecked out on my iPhone. Sorry for any typos.
www.jozjozjoz.com

PIC: The sun rises at Cleveland as my flight lands. 7:30 here=4:30am at home.

Published on March 20, 2011 in General. 0 Comments

PIC: The sun rises at Cleveland as my flight lands. 7:30 here=4:30am at home., originally uploaded by @jozjozjoz.

CLE
Cleveland, OH
3/20/2011.

-J
Pecked out on my iPhone. Sorry for any typos.
www.jozjozjoz.com

PIC: Joz about to land in CLE. I think I got an hour of sleep.

Published on March 20, 2011 in General. 0 Comments

PIC: Joz about to land in CLE. I think I got an hour of sleep., originally uploaded by @jozjozjoz.

Smiling because it was a safe flight.

Cleveland, OH
3/20/2011.

-J
Pecked out on my iPhone. Sorry for any typos.
www.jozjozjoz.com

PIC: On my plane! Here’s LAX just past midnight

Published on March 19, 2011 in General. 0 Comments

PIC: On my plane! Here’s LAX just past midnight, originally uploaded by @jozjozjoz.

LAX
Los Angeles, CA
3/20/2011.

-J
Pecked out on my iPhone. Sorry for any typos.
www.jozjozjoz.com

At Mustard Seed Cafe, @Moye wanted a bite of my smoked chicken Cobb salad.

Published on March 18, 2011 in General. 0 Comments

At Mustard Seed Cafe, @Moye wanted a bite of my smoked chicken Cobb salad., originally uploaded by @jozjozjoz.

Mustard Seed Cafe on Hillhurst
Los Feliz
Los Angeles, CA
3/16/2011.

-J
Pecked out on my iPhone. Sorry for any typos.
www.jozjozjoz.com

Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami: Did Japan “Deserve” It?

Published on March 13, 2011 in 8Asians and General. 6 Comments

One would hope that in the face of terrible tragedy, people can overcome their racism to, you know, become decent, compassionate human beings.

Instead, people are taking an unimaginable natural disaster and using it as a reason to justify why the Japanese “deserved” such devastation. To document and combat the ignornant Twitter and Facebook updates emerging online, Karma Japan began taking and posting screenshots of many Tweeters saying the disaster was “karma” or “payback” for the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, which happened over 70 years– and one World War– ago. There were enough so many tweets along these lines to make “Pearl Harbor” a popular trending topic on Twitter. One notable Tweeter, television writer Alec Sulkin who has over 160,000 followers said, “If you wanna feel better about this earthquake in Japan, google “Pearl Harbor death toll.” It was retweeted by over 100 over his followers within 4 hours. (A day later, Sulkin apologized and deleted his original tweet: “Yesterday death toll = 200. Today = 10 thousand. I am sorry for my insensitive tweet. It’s gone.” Only 75 people retweeted the apology after more than 24 hours.) For the record, the death toll at Pearl Harbor was approximately 2,400. It is likely that that the death toll in Japan will exceed that number by several fold, but regardless of the numbers, is it okay to compare the reasoning behind an act of war to that of an act of nature?
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Asian American Journalists Cover Earthquake and Tsunami Destruction in Japan

Published on March 11, 2011 in General. 1 Comment

It has been over 24 hours since the devastating 8.9 Sendai earthquake and tsunami in Japan. I’ve been glued to NHK World and Twitter to get the latest news.

At the same time that Japanese officials are calling for people in northeastern/coastal regions of Japan to evacuate and get to higher ground, I have been watching American journalists stationed in Japan (mostly Tokyo), being dispatched toward Sendai and Fukushima, the most devastated areas of the quake. Via AAJA, a list of Asian American journalists covering the Japanese quake was compiled by former AAJA National President Sharon Chan. Current AAJA National President Doris Truong has compiled a twitter list (that you can follow) of these same folks.

Some of the most compelling coverage comes directly from the journalists as they tweet about the difficulties of even reaching the devastated areas.
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PIC: Doing THE WEEK Magazine crossword. @wilw is the answer to 38 across!

Published on March 9, 2011 in General. 0 Comments

PIC: Doing THE WEEK Magazine crossword. @wilw is the answer to 38 across!, originally uploaded by @jozjozjoz.

Los Angeles, CA
3/9/2011.

-J
Pecked out on my iPhone. Sorry for any typos.
www.jozjozjoz.com

PIC & Brief Audio Interview by @TedNguyenUSA at #banana2 with @JacquelineWu & more

Published on March 6, 2011 in General. 1 Comment

I don’t know if I have it in me to make a nice & thorough blog post about BANANA2– frankly, after months of helping plan and organize the conference, I’m a little banana-ed out. So until I get around to it (which may be never), I’ll try to post some stuff up, mostly based on things that other people post. That is, I’m rampantly going to borrow from what’s already being written online.

This one is thanks to Ted Nguyen, who was interviewing people like mad at the conference.

Ted did an audio interview which included Edi Dai, Justin Balagtas, Jacqueline Wu, and me, because I happened to wander by his interview while he was talking to these other awesome folks. I come in on the tail-end of the interview at around the 8:40 mark.

Thanks to Jacqueline Wu & Ted Nguyen